Stuff
Product Details
Washington Square Press, February 2003
Trade Paperback, 304 pages
ISBN-10: 074342297X
ISBN-13: 9780743422970
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Pixie Kitchy was once Miss New Jersey. Now she's married to a dentist, an ex-quarterback in turtled golf pants. Her ten-year-old daughter, Mitzie, wears Bo-peep pincurls and twirls baton. Her sixteen-year-old son, Ezra, the person who knows her best, is caught up in his fling with the podiatrist's daughter. And Pixie is consumed by the past. She confides, "I was a housewife, and I became dangerous. Sometimes it's the only way possible to regain footing in the world." In this high-wire mixture of absurdity and pathos, hilarity and darkness, one American family finds out that there is no such thing as the perfect American family, and, for better or for worse, they come together and start anew.
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Text Excerpt 1USA today
An emotional and darkly comic examination of growth, loss, secrets, and lies.
Richard Russo
author of Empire Falls
Julianna Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak, and that makes her a writer after my own heart.
Library Journal (starred review)
This second novel establishes Baggott's remarkable talent for creating characters who resonate with readers.
